solve
verb (used with object), solved, solv·ing.
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do, determine, fix, explain, clarify, have, settle, decide, lick, illuminate, puzzle, unlock, divine, enlighten, disentangle, fathom, decode, unravel, crack, construeExamples from the Web for solve
Contemporary Examples of solve
This is the first study of its kind in Turkey and raises the possibility that a private solution could solve a public problem.
To solve the problem, we need to study a lot more comets and meteorites.
Is there anyone who thinks the urgent problem we need to solve in Washington, D.C. is how to allow more spending on campaigns?
“I doubt you can solve range and the need for a large magazine with the same missile,” he said.
Why are you trying to solve a cultural problem with a political solution?
Historical Examples of solve
When you solve a sum you go from "a" to "b" and from "b" to "c" and from "c" to "d" and so on.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
To solve their problem the engineers borrowed an idea from the Sumerians.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
But this does not astonish us when we understand the difficulties which he was obliged to solve.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
He was trying to solve his problem and Tillie's, and what he had found was no solution, but a compromise.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
I asked, astonished at Jim's behavior, and anxious for some clew by which to solve its mystery.
The UnderdogF. Hopkinson Smith